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Understand the programme position while the project is live.

Senior programme review and advisory support during delivery: baseline and update quality, logic, float and constraints, progress and developing completion risk, recovery and mitigation programmes, and progress measurement. Contemporaneous records are organised so they support the contractual and analytical position if matters later become contentious.

When this service is required

Typical situations

01

Progress is slipping and float is eroding

The team needs an objective view of where the completion date stands, and what is driving the movement.

Early warning
02

The programme's credibility is in doubt

An employer, funder or contractor needs assurance that the baseline and updates are logically sound, realistic and clearly documented.

Assurance
03

Delay events are emerging

Records and notices need to be captured correctly now, so the position can be supported if matters are later disputed.

Project records
Scope & deliverables

Clear, documented programme assurance

For contractors, employers, developers and funders

Programme information is reviewed by a senior specialist: logic integrity, float, criticality, achievability and the health of the update discipline. Developing completion risk is identified while practical options remain, and the contemporaneous records are organised so they support the contractual and analytical position if matters later become contentious.

What you receive
  • Specialist programme review: logic, float, criticality and achievability assessed
  • Early assessment of developing completion risk and what is driving it
  • Recovery and mitigation programme review, tested for realism before it is relied on
  • Records and notices guidance: what to capture now to support the position if matters become contentious
  • Ongoing programme assurance: periodic senior review through delivery

Approach & controls

Contemporaneous review, clearly documented.

Reviews are documented at the time they are carried out, so the contemporaneous assessment is available to support the position if matters later become contentious.

Technology-assisted comparison highlights logic and date changes between programme revisions quickly; the significance of each change is a matter of professional judgement, reviewed by the responsible specialist. See our approach.

Related casework

In practice

Case file / 04 · Live & retrospective

Delay support on a major offshore windfarm

Sector
Offshore renewables
Region
Western Europe
Role
Contractor appointment

Contemporaneous assessment of emerging delay exposure on a live project, alongside retrospective analysis of events that had already affected progress.

Value delivered

A structured, evidence-based foundation for advancing multiple delay-related contractual positions.

Q/01

Is this the same as being our planner?

No. This is senior review and assurance alongside your delivery team, not day-to-day programme production. The value is an objective second view of the programme position, clearly documented at the time it is taken.

Q/02

What records should we be keeping?

Native programme files with update history, dated progress records, site diaries, photographs with metadata, minutes and correspondence. Part of the service is defining exactly what matters for your contract and events, and making sure it is captured.

Led byIonut Voinea
CredentialsRICS Certified Expert Witness · MCIArb
ExperienceMore than 20 years' experience

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Understand the position while practical options remain.

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